Unfortunately, his instrument is the triangle, and the sound irritates her father, who cannot resist dropping a cinder block on his head.
I don't know why it was, exactly, but nothing irritated my father quite like the sound of his children's happiness.
In one humiliating childhood incident, the young Jerome irritated his father by refusing to part at bedtime with the toy train he had been given for Christmas.
8 P.M. (Fox) DADS Eli (Seth Green) decides to move in with a comedian whom even he finds annoying, just to irritate his father (Peter Riegert), and Crawford Martin Mulll) does voice-over work for a new video game.
His beloved mother had recently died of cancer, and he'd run away from home to Houston, and "the cultural value of anything was how much it irritated my father" — an oil-company executive.
"It would irritate my father so much — because he was a military man, and both my brothers did military service, and I didn't — that I walk around New York and I hear, 'Hey, Captain, how are you?' " he said.
Growing up in the Southern Italian village of Castellaneta, Rodolfo Guglielmi idolized his mother and irritated his father, a former Army officer and research veterinarian whose fatal illness, in 1906, provided "a heart-stopping, melodramatic deathbed scene," complete with clutched crucifix and the extraction of pledges to madre and to Italia from Dr. Guglielmi's two boys.
SC: I was 15 and wanted to irritate my father.
Most mornings James yawps — like Walt Whitman — to irritate his father (The Brute) but also in emulation of Whitman's bravado.
Finally, however, he pointed out that he started the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Dublin during his early teens, but downplays his involvement, saying it was partly because the movement was trendy, partly because it irritated his father--something that appealed to his rebellious side.
She is hospitalized for six weeks, until her father, irritated with the uppity doctors, breaks her out and takes her home.
